0:00:00.7 Lauri Wakefield: Welcome. Thanks for joining us today. I’m Lauri.

0:00:04.1 Leslee Wegleitner: Hi, everyone. This is Leslee. So Lauri and I thought it would be kind of fun to do some podcasts around Type and Strategies. So today, we’re gonna be going into the Generator Type. Lauri, do you wanna?

0:00:20.3 Lauri Wakefield: Yeah. Okay. So we were kinda talking about how we wanted to approach it. We’re gonna start out with talking about basic characteristics of a Generator and then we’ll get into our personal experiences. Both of us are Manifesting Generators. So basically, Generators is one of the most common types. Of the… 70% of the population make up the Generators… Generator Type. So within the Generator Type, there are two different types. There is what’s known as a Pure Generator and then a Manifesting Generator. So we… Leslee and I are both Manifesting Generators, but the difference between the two… Well, the common thing between the two is that both have the Sacral defined, and the Sacral Center defined, which… It… That doesn’t apply to any of the other types, only Generators have the Sacral defined. So with a Pure Generator, they do not have a motor to the throat and a Manifesting Generator does have a motor to the throat. So the four motors are the Sacral Center, the Emotional Solar Plexus, the root Center, and the will center. So those are… There are… A Generator would not have that. They would not have a motor to the throat. So anyway, Leslee, you wanna add to that, what I just talked about?

0:01:51.1 Leslee Wegleitner: Sure. So the biggest difference that I’m finding between knowing the Generators in my life and myself, is Manifesting Generators can move pretty quickly, and which can be a good thing and a bad thing. But we tend to get things done a little faster, where the Generators, what I’ve noticed in my life are very, methodical and it’s step by step by step. And their process, has to be that way and where Manifesting Generators can kind of like look at the whole big picture and then kinda take off running and we might skip some steps and then we have to go back to them, but just… Everything’s quicker. We move faster. We can tend to make decisions faster for good or bad, where Generators just… They’re busy. They have the life force energy to sustain energy to create things, but they just do it in a sequence that is more strategic or laid out. And Manifestors tend to have many things sometimes going on at once.

0:03:14.3 Lauri Wakefield: Manifesting Generators. Yeah.

0:03:16.2 Leslee Wegleitner: Yeah. I’m sorry. Manifesting Generators. Yeah. We will have many projects going at the same time. Where I think, the Generators, what I observed from them is they really like doing one thing at a time and focusing on that one thing from start to completion, and these are generalizations, so someone’s chart might… When you go further or deeper into the chart that can change, but for the kind of the over foundation of Generators versus Manifesting Generators, this is kind of what I found. Do you have anything to add to that?

0:03:50.3 Lauri Wakefield: Yeah, I think, I probably should have started out with talking about… So when you have… With Generators their strategy is to wait to respond. So that’s when they’ll move into action. So like Leslee was saying, with the Generator, they’re responding to something, but it’s a slower process where with a Manifesting Generator, it’s something that’s a lot quicker. So… And it depends also which channels define that the motor to the throat, how it gets to the throat, because that can be different too, for a Manifesting Generator. So I know, Leslee and I have different paths from the… To the Throat Center. The motor to the Throat Center. Mine is actually from… Mine, starts with the 59.6… Channel 59.6 from the Emotional Solar Plexus to the Sacral. And then from the Sacral to the Throat Center of the 34.20. So I know with myself, like when I move, it’s like, boom, boom, you know? It’s like… I get that. You know, the knowing that it’s the right time that… Through after my emotional wave and it’s like, boom, boom. It’s like… It goes into action very quickly. But with you, Leslee, yours goes from the Sacral through the G Center to the throat, right?

0:05:09.4 Leslee Wegleitner: Right.

0:05:10.0 Lauri Wakefield: So yours might be processing a little bit different.

0:05:12.9 Leslee Wegleitner: And I’m also Emotional Authority, like you were talking about…

0:05:18.6 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:05:19.0 Leslee Wegleitner: Now with the Generators, there’s only two Authorities, it’s either Emotional or Sacral Authority. We’re both Emotional Authority. So there’s gonna be a little bit more of a pause because we have to go through this emotional wave. And with that, my emotional wave is kind of on its own. It’s on its own little island and it’s not connected.

0:05:40.2 Lauri Wakefield: Right. Which is because…

0:05:41.4 Leslee Wegleitner: To anything…

0:05:41.5 Lauri Wakefield: Yeah, because you’re a triple split. So that’s why…

0:05:44.8 Leslee Wegleitner: Right.

0:05:44.9 Lauri Wakefield: You’re talking about that the Emotional Solar Plexus isn’t connected to anything else. That’s…

0:05:51.2 Leslee Wegleitner: Right. It’s just connected to my will center.

0:05:53.1 Lauri Wakefield: Right. Right.

0:05:54.3 Leslee Wegleitner: So my Sacral is connected from the root to the Sacral to the G Center to the throat. So I can have this sense. Let me… My initial response might be, “Mm-hmm,” or, “Uh-huh.” But then I have to kinda revisit that to gain clarity if that is the correct thing for me, but it takes a little bit longer because that clarity is just kinda hanging off in the distance in its own little…

0:06:18.5 Lauri Wakefield: Right. Through the emotional… Yeah, through the Emotional Solar Plexus, yeah.

0:06:22.1 Leslee Wegleitner: Yeah. And it doesn’t necessarily allow me to access it as… Like you, you have access to it consistently ’cause of the 59.6, and then it goes right to the throat. So it’s a lot quicker than my process. But there’s… Like you were saying, there’s so many different configurations, you kinda just have to dive a little bit deeper into that, but for the most part, emotional… To gain that clarity with the Emotional Authority is… It’s really… It takes practice, and maybe you can talk more about that too, but it’s like, first, what is responding? And what am I responding to? And it can be in so many different ways. You can get an email, it could be a text, it could be someone asking a question, it could be a scene on the TV show, walking in the woods and a bird’s chirping at you. We’re responding all day long, but it’s kinda connecting to that primal knowing of, if the guidance is there to have the response that you need to move forward on something. So that was a little confusing for me in the beginning, like, “Okay, what is this response thing all about?” And then to actually go through the process of kinda deconditioning of not using those sounds, and to really feel into the body, to understand what that means for me, and then, then the practice came of taking that pause for the clarity to come. So once I kind of got the response more… Used to having that response, then to hold myself because Manifesting Generators do wanna move fast and take action.

0:08:14.8 Lauri Wakefield: Yep.

0:08:15.0 Leslee Wegleitner: To kinda go, “Okay, I got this. That this is the class I need to take,” but then to stop myself and to kinda ride out the wave to see, “Well, is it correct for me?” And it’s amazing how that changes. It’s a yes, and it’s a no, then it’s a yes, and it’s a yes and it’s yes, then it’s a no. And then…

0:08:32.5 Lauri Wakefield: Yeah. Yeah. It can definitely get tricky with Emotional Authority because you’re gonna get that Sacral response, you’re gonna get that gut feeling. It’s like a yes, no, but the thing with Emotional Authority is that it’s something that you can’t trust it in the moment, that decision in the moment or that response in the moment, it’s like you have to ride out the wave for it to be like a consistent yes or a consistent no. So it gets trickier with somebody who’s got Emotional Authority. Yeah, I… Yeah, it’s something I know… Like people… What does it mean to respond? What does it mean to wait to respond? Like you sit around and you just wait for things to happen. And that’s not the way that it works. You do basically what you love to do, and that by doing what you love to do, which isn’t always possible, sometimes we have to do things we don’t wanna do and we just kind of endure it, but when we talk about the Sacral being able to replenish itself with a Generator, if you’re doing something that you don’t love, the Sacral is not gonna get replenished and you can get burned out from that. So when you’re doing things that you do love and the Sacral replenishes itself… And, you know what, honestly, I kinda lost my train of thought, I was gonna go somewhere with it. But basically I… Yeah, it’s… It sounds like you sit back passively and you don’t do anything, you’re just like waiting for things to happen around you, it’s not that way at all.

0:10:19.2 Lauri Wakefield: It just means that you keep busy doing things and then things come to you because that’s a thing with the Generator. Is the aura is opening and enveloping. So when you’re living true to your strategy, when you’re following that by waiting to respond, you’re basically having faith that what is right for you is gonna be drawn to you. So that’s a big key to it. So in the meantime, you do things that you have to do or things that you wanna do, and then the more that you are able to grow and live following your strategy, the more that you’ll find that things that are right for you are gonna be drawn to you, those opportunities are gonna be drawn to you.

0:11:06.2 Leslee Wegleitner: Yeah.

0:11:08.1 Lauri Wakefield: Another thing I wanted to say, like you were… ‘Cause yes, so you do have the root. If I forgot about that, I was thinking it was… So you do… Actually, it starts at the root through the Sacral, through the G center to the throat, that’s interesting. I guess I knew that, but… ‘Cause you can have… I was thinking about the different configurations. So with a Manifesting Generator, you can have from the solar plexus to the throat, you can have from the Sacral directly to the throat, you can have from the root center to the spleen or the splenic center to the throat, there are just a lot of different configurations and depending on… Not only that, there are a lot of other things in the chart that are gonna impact things, but basically, like the basic nature of a Generator is always gonna be there. The strategy is to respond and then the decision-making is gonna be based on either your Sacral Authority or Emotional Authority. And I think I said this before, that you’re always gonna get that yes, no, but it has to be consistent over time. So if you are first, somebody who’s emotionally defined, or somebody who has Emotional Authority. Anyway, you have anything you wanna add to that, Leslee?

0:12:23.2 Leslee Wegleitner: Well, the whole… The response thing in the body, as I’ve been playing with this, is our body is really our gauge, I mean, it’s like if we can feel into what that body’s feeling. So sometimes on the emotional wave, the body’s feeling nervous or anxious or, and so like, if someone’s asking me a question, but putting pressure on me and then I’m getting nervous, it’s not the timing. It’s like, it’s not hitting.

0:12:51.7 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:12:52.0 Leslee Wegleitner: And even if I’m not getting a yes or a no, there’s this sense of calmness, sometimes that I’ll feel, and I’ll be like, “Oh, this is the right direction.” So it’s not like there’s a big, oh, like your body’s like jumping, I got to do this, I got to do this.

0:13:07.2 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:13:08.1 Leslee Wegleitner: It’s a more of a stillness. It’s weird.

0:13:10.0 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:13:10.1 Leslee Wegleitner: So it’s really so much about the body. Because the Sacral Center is our life force energy. So it’s tapping into that sense of what the body’s feeling and getting really comfortable of what that means for you, because it’s gonna be different for everyone depending on the chart. But another really kind of funny example is when I was up north, and my boyfriend just asked me, “Oh, do you wanna go home today? Or would you rather wait till tomorrow?” And I didn’t get a clear answer and I wasn’t sure. And my mind was going, “Yeah, go home. You can do this and this… No, stay you’re enjoying yourself.” So I just thought, you know what let me get back to you on that. And so I’m just doing my thing. And then about an hour later, I realize my body’s tearing down the beds to wash and get ready to go home. And I’m like, oh my gosh, there it is. It’s like, my head was out of the way. And my body was telling me you wanna go home. So when I got home, it’s like everything else, and the rest of the day, and the next day just really played out and I’m like, I was supposed to be at home.

0:14:18.0 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:14:18.6 Leslee Wegleitner: So there’s that trusting of the process and things will just naturally come, but.

0:14:25.0 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:14:26.0 Leslee Wegleitner: Heads so much dictate all of that and tell us what we think that we know or what’s best for us, but it’s really trusting in that body that’s really gonna just lead us.

0:14:37.0 Lauri Wakefield: Right.

0:14:37.3 Leslee Wegleitner: It’s gonna lead us to the answer.

0:14:38.9 Lauri Wakefield: Yeah. I mean, it’s interesting. I know even with myself, and it could be like little things, I might have a thought, like, I’m gonna do this, but then it’s like, like I’m being led in another direction. I’m like, okay. You know, so I followed that instead of like what I was thinking I was gonna do right at that moment. And then another thing too, is with people with Emotional Authority. And I know that this isn’t because you can have… Other human design types can have Emotional Authority, but with somebody who has a hysterical to find that, yes, no, I… Gut response, like when there’s a, like a pressure thing like if you don’t buy this, say this within the next 24 hours or however much time, it like the opportunity is gonna be gone [laughter]

0:15:25.1 Lauri Wakefield: And for people like you and me, that’s bad like, that, because if I feel that pressure and I give into it. And it’s like, and I buy it and it’s like, “Oh my God what the heck was I thinking?” Not always, but you know what I’m saying? It just, there has to be… Sometimes a split decision can’t be made like that. You know what I mean, sometimes they have to be, I mean, obviously, you know, we make decisions all day long, but the bigger decisions in life, I mean, the things, you know, where it’s gonna affect our wellbeing or affect our like where we live or the job that we have, our income, or something that’s a bigger thing than… We have to be true to ourselves and what is really right for us. And that’s by allowing the process to happen, instead of trying to get it over with quickly. Right?

0:16:17.2 Leslee Wegleitner: Yeah. Well, and I don’t know if you’ve noticed this whole process, it’s… It can be in little things, but sometimes I don’t know the direction I’m supposed to take until I’m actually taking action towards it. And all of a sudden I’m like, “Nope, that doesn’t feel right anymore.” So, which is kind of frustrating because like, you’re going out to dinner with someone and you’re on your way and you’re like, “I’m not supposed to be doing this.” [laughter] And so I don’t… I think that might be a Manifesting Generator thing, or maybe it’s a Generator thing across the board. But I’ve really noticed that like, and maybe it’s because I wasn’t listening completely in the beginning when I was getting to know him, and I let my mind talk me into it, but then as I’m in motion doing it, I’m realizing this is not correct for me. And that’s just something else that I’ve kind of been… Or I’ve learned along the way, and I’m still kind of playing up, but it’s… And not to… Then not to like make it wrong. Or, and then to honor that, I think the more we learn to honor the response that the body is giving us, I think the more you come in alignment with it, and then your life just unfolds the way it’s supposed to, more naturally.

0:17:28.7 Lauri Wakefield: Oh yeah. Definitely.

0:17:29.8 Leslee Wegleitner: That’s probably where the magnetic or like field really starts pulling things towards you that you were supposed to be responsive to.

0:17:38.6 Lauri Wakefield: Yeah. Trying to force things to happen or hurry things along. Yeah, definitely.

0:17:41.8 Leslee Wegleitner: Yeah. I guess.

0:17:43.3 Lauri Wakefield: Timing has to be right. And it has to be right for us, the opportunity. So did you have anything else that you wanted to add, Leslee, or do you wanna wrap up the episode?

0:17:56.3 Leslee Wegleitner: I think we did a pretty good job of covering everything. Is there anything else that you can think of?

0:18:03.2 Lauri Wakefield: No, I don’t think so. I think I’d probably end up repeating myself. I don’t know if you can hear my phone going off. I’m trying to sit on my phone to shut it up. I thought I turned the volume down on it. So yeah, and I think we’re probably finished. So that’ll wrap things up for this episode. Thanks for joining us today, in our next episode, we’re gonna talk about Projectors in the Living, your design type series. And I think we’re still kind of trying to decide whether or not we’re going to, we’re gonna have a guest or whether we’re just gonna do it ourselves and just kind of do what we did today. But we’ll let you know when we do our next episode. Right?

0:18:44.4 Leslee Wegleitner: Right.

0:18:45.9 Lauri Wakefield: So if you’d like to see the show notes for today’s podcast, you can find them at our website at www.alignandachievebydesign.com. The show notes will be listed under podcast, episode 13. If you’d like to join us as we begin our exploration into the… For human design types, please be sure to subscribe to our podcast. Thanks again, and have a great day.

0:19:09.0 Leslee Wegleitner: Thanks everybody.